Question

In what way did industrialization affect the working class?

They improved their standard of living.
They fell far below other classes.
They became more successful.
They were absorbed into the middle class.

Answer 1

They fell far below other classes.

Industrialization created a large urban working (proletarian) class that generally faced low wages, long hours, unsafe and unhealthy factory conditions, and overcrowded housing, leaving them economically and socially far below the middle and upper classes (improvements for workers came slowly and unevenly over time).